Rating: 1,6|Votes: 10
The Archangel Michael is the outstanding figure in the eyes of the Greek Orthodox Church and is depicted in the many houses of worship in an icon always on the extreme left where he is pictured as a guardian of Paradise from whence Adam and Eve were evicted. In some icons he is seen with a flaming sword as a symbol of the righteousness that called for the casting out of the Garden of Eden of Adam and Eve after they had fallen victim to Satan in the form of a serpent.
Rating: 7,2|Votes: 19
The Synaxis of the Leader of the Heavenly Hosts Michael, and the Other Heavenly Bodiless Hosts was established at the beginning of the IV Century at the local Laodician Council, which occurred several years before the First Ecumenical Council.
Rating: 5,2|Votes: 10
The name Michael means "Who is like God?" and Gabriel means "God is mighty."
Rating: 7|Votes: 3
The following conversation with Schema-Archimandrite Gabriel (Bunge), the renowned patristics scholar from the Skete of the Holy Cross in Switzerland, was held during his visit to Moscow in early November 2012
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Today marks the third anniversary of the blessed repose of His Holiness, Patriarch Pavle of Serbia (1914-2009). To mark this anniversary, we offer the following excerpt from a conversation with the late Patriarch found in the book Please Be People! (Bud’te liud’mi) by Jovan Janić, published in Russian by St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University in Moscow.